• artvandelay@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Vaccines are typically meant to protect against viruses or bacteria. Cancer is neither of those. hiv is a virus but the political will to produce effective treatments was not always there. I think a lot of young people underestimate the homophobia that was pervasive not all that long ago and how it was tied to the aids epidemic.

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      There are some promising efforts for vaccines against cancer. It’s teaching your immune system to kill cells that were supposed to die on their own. It’s a relatively recent development, though.

      Plus, as should always be stated with cancer treatments, there is no singular “cancer”. It’s a class of related problems that need to be handled individually. Vaccine against prostate cancer shouldn’t be expected to work against breast cancer. Anything that claims to cure cancer in a blanket way should be treated with great suspicion.

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      1 year ago

      Also, cancer isn’t one disease but a whole class of diseases. And we actually do have vaccines that prevent certain forms of cancer, like the HPV vaccine.

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    The best thing for my family was that we were in St Jude with our daughter while the rest of the world lost their minds. I was able to speak directly to Infectious Disease doctors that had nothing to do with anything but researching for cancer patients. They had worked with the original doctors for the Covid vaccine, and how long it had been in development as we learned more about the disease. People were just going off ignorance. Just because you don’t know, doesn’t mean everyone else is trying to lie to you.

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    In fact, there are vaccines against some cancer types. There’s a virus, which is responsible for almost all womb cancer cases. Here in Germany, the vaccine is free, if you’re under 20 iirc.

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    That’s apples, oranges, and …passion fruits. They’re simply not the same. Besides, it’s quite pessimistic to imagine that the effort scientists have put into vaccine development, and all knowledge acquired, haven’t taught us a trick or two.

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    Why the fuck are these idiots so weirdly obsessed with Gates. He’s a fuckin’ retired OS monger, not a supermegapolyscientist

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    They found a 100% effective way to place microchips on our bodies within just 10 months? Damn, I didn’t know science had advanced that much.

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            Uh huh.

            And a skin dye pattern has what, exactly, do with microchips and GPS blood trackers?

            Cuz if you think those are the same thing you’re going to go wild when you hear about other kinds of tattoos.

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              It’s the gates funded spy program you referred to. You don’t need compute resources or location tags. Just a way to store data on a person.

              Get vaccinated, get tattooed

              Passed your driving test, get tattooed

              Pay your tax, get tattooed

              Arrest at a protest, get tattooed

              Etc.

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    The vaccine had been in development for decades.

    The gain-of-function lab COVID-19 escaped from was properly researching just that kind of thing.